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Céad Míle Fáilte – and welcome to your Letter from Ireland. Well now, the weather’s really changed over the week here in County Cork. We have high winds, sharp air and a threat of local flooding. And just last Sunday we were swimming in the sea! I do hope you are keeping well wherever you […]

Have you ever heard the term ‘Galloglass’? Do you or your Irish ancestors have the surname MACSWEENY, MCCABE – or, MACDONALD, MACNEILL, MACSHEEHY, MCCOY, MACRORY? Then these Scottish-sounding names may mean that you may have “Galloglass” blood in you. After the arrival of the Normans in Ireland in 1169 the Irish Chieftains needed help to […]